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Any opinions on what web mail account is best?
I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail.
I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use for web based forms / purchases etc. To keep the spam out of my ISP email. I just recently changed ISP's and I'm clear of spam right now and would like to keep it that way. Looking for anyone's opionion on any of these or others. And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly via IE. |
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Any opinions on what web mail account is best?
On Wed, 28 May 2008 16:55:05 GMT, Big Al wrote:
I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use for web based forms / purchases etc. To keep the spam out of my ISP email. I just recently changed ISP's and I'm clear of spam right now and would like to keep it that way. Looking for anyone's opionion on any of these or others. And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly via IE. I have nine email accounts g. Four of them are web-based. For easy access without having to use the web interface, go with Gmail. |
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Any opinions on what web mail account is best?
Google's Gmail. Spam filter is very good
and it supports Outlook Express, Outlook 2003 & 2007 JS "Big Al" wrote in message news:J7g%j.3557$fk.1664@trnddc06... I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use for web based forms / purchases etc. To keep the spam out of my ISP email. I just recently changed ISP's and I'm clear of spam right now and would like to keep it that way. Looking for anyone's opionion on any of these or others. And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly via IE. |
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Any opinions on what web mail account is best?
"Big Al" wrote in message
news:J7g%j.3557$fk.1664@trnddc06... I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use for web based forms / purchases etc. To keep the spam out of my ISP email. I just recently changed ISP's and I'm clear of spam right now and would like to keep it that way. Looking for anyone's opionion on any of these or others. And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly via IE. What's best depends on how you want to use it. Clearly, from your mention of Outlook and Thunderbird, you aren't only going to use it as web mail. So, you want one that can be accessed from regular mail clients. I use Gmail because it's easy to set up for POP/SMTP and the sending server can be used with other email accounts. This is meaningful when your ISP's sending server requires that you be connected to their network, which is often not possible if you travel. Plus, I have generally found that Google has a reasonable idea of how to keep a server running, and I've found it to be vastly more stable than my ISP's mail since they outsourced to Hotmail. HTH -pk |
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Any opinions on what web mail account is best?
The only drawback to Gmail is that it will reject any email with an
attachment that contains an executable. Other than that it will do what you want it to do. Mark "Big Al" wrote in message news:J7g%j.3557$fk.1664@trnddc06... I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use for web based forms / purchases etc. To keep the spam out of my ISP email. I just recently changed ISP's and I'm clear of spam right now and would like to keep it that way. Looking for anyone's opionion on any of these or others. And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly via IE. |
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Any opinions on what web mail account is best?
You can get round that by renaming the .exe in the executable attachment to
something like .xyz before sending, and instruct the recipient at the other end to change it back to .exe after it arrives. It works. "Mark" wrote in message ... The only drawback to Gmail is that it will reject any email with an attachment that contains an executable. Other than that it will do what you want it to do. Mark "Big Al" wrote in message news:J7g%j.3557$fk.1664@trnddc06... I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use for web based forms / purchases etc. To keep the spam out of my ISP email. I just recently changed ISP's and I'm clear of spam right now and would like to keep it that way. Looking for anyone's opionion on any of these or others. And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly via IE. |
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Any opinions on what web mail account is best?
Thanks for the tip. Sometimes it's the simple things.
Mark "R Iyer" wrote in message ... You can get round that by renaming the .exe in the executable attachment to something like .xyz before sending, and instruct the recipient at the other end to change it back to .exe after it arrives. It works. "Mark" wrote in message ... The only drawback to Gmail is that it will reject any email with an attachment that contains an executable. Other than that it will do what you want it to do. Mark "Big Al" wrote in message news:J7g%j.3557$fk.1664@trnddc06... I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use for web based forms / purchases etc. To keep the spam out of my ISP email. I just recently changed ISP's and I'm clear of spam right now and would like to keep it that way. Looking for anyone's opionion on any of these or others. And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly via IE. |
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Any opinions on what web mail account is best?
You are welcome
"Mark" wrote in message ... Thanks for the tip. Sometimes it's the simple things. Mark "R Iyer" wrote in message ... You can get round that by renaming the .exe in the executable attachment to something like .xyz before sending, and instruct the recipient at the other end to change it back to .exe after it arrives. It works. "Mark" wrote in message ... The only drawback to Gmail is that it will reject any email with an attachment that contains an executable. Other than that it will do what you want it to do. Mark "Big Al" wrote in message news:J7g%j.3557$fk.1664@trnddc06... I'm thinking of signing up for something like yahoo or gmail or hotmail. I want an account that is not connected to my ISP obviously that I can use for web based forms / purchases etc. To keep the spam out of my ISP email. I just recently changed ISP's and I'm clear of spam right now and would like to keep it that way. Looking for anyone's opionion on any of these or others. And can any of them be used via outlook / thunderbird rather that strictly via IE. |
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